Spa time was just what Quarmby’s Wendy Wilson and husband Nigel needed

Spa time was just what Quarmby’s Wendy Wilson and husband Nigel needed

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THE past few months have been something of a nightmare for Examiner reader Wendy Wilson and her family.

In November last year the senior software tester was rushed into hospital with a perforated bowel and almost died.

Suffering from a serious internal infection and multiple organ failure, she was in intensive care in Huddersfield Royal Infirmary for more than two weeks and spent five months in hospital altogether.

She was still in her hospital bed when she read the Examiner and saw our competition to win a day for two at the Titanic Spa in Linthwaite.

“I wanted to enter to say thank you to my husband Nigel,” she said. “He has been an absolute star.”

During Wendy’s long recuperation – which involved surgery at both HRI and Leeds General Infirmary – Nigel, her husband of 31 years, took care of their Quarmby home and also looked after their elderly relatives, assisted by their son Andrew.

“Nigel was working full time, doing all the cooking, cleaning, washing, ironing and shopping, visiting me every day and looking after his 80-year-old father and my 80-year-old mum and 76-year-old, very ill father,” explained Wendy, who was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease in March last year.

Wendy’s illness has left her feeling quite weak – she lost nearly three stones in weight – and, as yet, unable to return to work.

She’s still trying to re-establish normal eating patterns after months of being tube-fed in hospital.

But she finally felt well enough last week to take up the prize in our competition and enjoy a day at the Titanic Spa, with pampering treatments and lunch.

For Nigel it was the first time he’d ever had a spa treatment. “He was quite nervous about it at first,” added Wendy, “but absolutely loved it.”